Wednesday, 21 September 2016

Residents flee as another earth tremor hits Kaduna state

Another earth tremor on Tuesday rocked the Kwoi community in Jaba Local
Government Area of Kaduna State. The incident had reportedly forced many
residents to flee the community.

Punch correspondent gathered that the Tuesday incident which occurred
around 9am was accompanied by a heavy vibration. An earlier tremor had
taken place on Monday around 3am.

Following the incidents, schools in the city were shut down and
students, who had just resumed from the long vacation, were asked to
return home. Many of the residents too had started fleeing the
community.

A resident of the community, Ayuba Nok, in a chat with Punch
correspondent described the Tuesday incident as more serious than the
earlier ones.

Nok said, “Today’s tremor was very loud. It was louder than the previous
ones. Some schools were forced to close. They sent their students back
home.

“Mallam Maude School, LEA Central Primary School and Sabzuro Primary
School were some of the schools which were forced to close as a result
of the sound of the tremor. They were afraid that something worse might
happen.

“The heavy vibration of the tremor happened around 9 am today. It also
occurred on Monday around 3am. The sound of Monday’s tremor was not as
loud and devastating as the one of this morning.

“The Chairman, Mr. Ben Kure, is saying that people should be calm and
stay where they are. But, the people are already frightened and they are
in shock.

“When the incident happened again today, many of us who were thinking
otherwise before decided to leave the town, especially the women and
children. This is because we don’t know probably the whole town may sink
when another one happens. And the government is not doing anything for
now to evacuate people.”
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